[BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today

[Jim Miller]

No radar on Minuteman - all inertial guidance, Sperry gyros and solid state
control to the nozzles - once it was disconnected from the hole, it was
GONE.
73, de Jim KG0KP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Dutson" <kjdutson at earthlink.net>
To: "TowerTalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:09 PM
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today


> Might have had a klystron and small magnetron for radar guidance.  Did you
> see any waveguides?
>
> Keith NM5G
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:51 PM
> To: Steve Katz; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
>
> You might be right.  Everything I saw was solid state but there may have
> been something in there that was tube.  It was the Minuteman system that
we
> were installing.
>
> 73, de Jim KG0KP
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Katz" <stevek at jmr.com>
> To: "'Jim Miller'" <JimMiller at STL-Online.Net>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:30 PM
> Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
>
>
> >
> > > I was in missile class in the Air Force in 1963 and the lab and course
> was
> > > entirely in tubes even though the missile was entirely in transistors.
> > > The
> > > adaptation was very short (minutes, maybe and hour) and said that
> > > transistors worked like tubes except at lower voltages and power
levels.
> > > That was all there was to transistors !!!  Not bad really for a class
> that
> > > hadn't been rewritten yet (and that may have been all the instructor
> knew
> > > at
> > > that time).
> > >
> > > 73, de Jim KG0KP
> > [Steve Katz]  I'll bet the missle wasn't "all transistors" in 1963.
> > The guidance and targeting systems used high voltage microwave tubes
> > throughout the 1970s, including SAMs and AAMs.  Of course, a lot of
those
> > late 1950s designs didn't actually reach production levels until the
> > seventies (no kidding).  We were building (Army) Hawks designed in '63
at
> > Raytheon/Martin (forebody/aftbody) in 1978; the Patriot didn't go into
> full
> > production until after that, and its acquisition system still used
> > tubes...ditto the Sidewinder, Sparrow, etc.  -WB2WIK/6
> >
> >
> >
> >
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